• Understand key health economic concepts
• Ability to apply health economic theory to real life situations
• Acquire skills that are directly relevant to the industry
• Deepen knowledge on a topic of own interest

• The lecturers will explain key economic theory and the understanding will be consolidated by selected readings from a leading health economics textbook and other sources.
• Economic theory will be discussed in the context of real life applications introduced via relevant articles and case studies.
• Understanding of theory and specific skills will be supported by means of short in-class and home exercises.
• Group work on a specialized topic that will culminate in a group oral presentation.

Assessment Components (relative weights in the final grade)

• Participation (20%)
• Quiz 1 (20%)
• Quiz 2 (20%)
• Group oral presentation (40%)

Grades (point ranges)

• 1: Excellent (90-100 points)
• 2: Good (80-89 points)
• 3: Satisfactory (65-79 points)
• 4: Sufficient (50-64 points)
• 5: Fail (0-49 points)

Important Notes

You will need to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) with access to LEARN on quiz days. Both quizzes are open-book in the sense that students can bring the course material and own personal notes. No other support is allowed (e.g., internet, communication devices, AI-tools).

 The use of AI for your presentation is very limited (for details see task description for individual assignments), and has to be documented. 

• Key authoring tasks should not be transferred to AI. The use of AI tools for results, discussion, and reflection is prohibited; these are the students' own work. AI output cannot be used as evidence for content-related claims; it must be substantiated with scientific literature. You should neither copy & paste nor paraphrase text generated by a large-language model (such as ChatGPT). The unauthorized use of AI tools or missing evidence is considered an attempt at fraud or plagiarism. It will prompt an oral re-examination.

• However, AI can be used to assist with key authoring tasks, for example for brainstorming and to support the initial screening of existing research.  Still, any kind of supporting input from AI must be critically reviewed, reflected upon and deepened by the authors, who bear full responsibility for the content of their manuscript and presentations.

• Like other aids, the use of AI should be explicitly included in the list of aids (resource directory) and attached to the work. The documentation of the interaction with the AI (especially tool, prompts) must be available upon request.  WU’s policy on listing any aids used in a paper or presentation (which includes the use of AI tools) came into effect on 3 December 2024. WU provides templates for the required list of aids used. 

More detailed instructions will be provided for each assessment component.